This year’s Program on Law and State Government at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis Oct. 1 will
focus on three main topics for lawyers, businesses, legislators, government employees, and academics: education about entrepreneurship
at the undergrad, graduate school, and law school levels; the idea of “social businesses,” also known as L3Cs
or low profit limited liability companies; and how government entities use data to improve services to citizens.

Over the next three years, a professor at an Indiana law school will be working on a study of India’s trial courts as
part of a $261,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to a non-governmental association based in India.

The ninth conference aimed at solo and small firm attorneys in Indiana was a success according to organizers and those who
attended, especially going by the number of law school students in attendance compared to previous years.

Indiana has lost a chance at having one of its own law professors be chosen to lead a top Department of Justice post, where
she would have helped advise the president and executive branch on questions about the Constitution and interpretation of
the law.

The chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States was warmly greeted by a full house April 7 at Indiana University
School of Law - Indianapolis at the annual James P. White Lecture on Legal Education.

As a response to the Carnegie Foundation's report, "Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law" released in
early 2007, an Indiana law school has been offering a mandatory class to 1Ls about the professional and ethical rigors of
the legal profession.

A Valparaiso University School of Law professor was among three professors and four members of Congress honored with the Champion
of Consumer Rights Award by the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Tuesday.

On a historic day when a longtime U.S. Supreme Court justice announced his retirement and an Indianapolis judge marked his
investiture to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, an Indiana law professor withdrew her name from consideration for a post
with the Department of Justice.

The student chapter of the Federalist Society at Indiana University Maurer School of Law ­- Bloomington and the Intellectual
Property Association student group will co-host the final John Templeton Series Debate on film piracy.

The chief justice of the United States talked about the history of the Supreme Court to a full house Wednesday night at Indiana
University School of Law - Indianapolis and took audience questions at the annual James P. White Lecture on Legal Education.

Speakers from the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society will debate the definition, examples, and relevance
of judicial activism at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law next week.

The man who sued the Indiana Supreme Court and State Board of Law Examiners because he wants to take the bar exam without
going to law school had his case dismissed in federal court this week due to failure to pay the filing fee. He then re-filed
his suit Thursday, alleging the same claims.